US Health Care Costs

Dehydration and electrolyte problems, with major complications in Virginia

MS-DRG 640: Miscellaneous disorders of nutrition, metabolism, fluids and electrolytes with mcc

$39,255typical hospital bill
$10,718typical amount paid
$8,125–$26,444range paid across 52 hospitals

Virginia hospitals billed Medicare a typical $39,255 for this stay in 2024, about 3.7 times what was actually paid. Medicare's payment depends mostly on the hospital's location and teaching role; the bill depends on the hospital's own price list, so bills vary far more than payments.

Billed (list price)Actually paid (Medicare + patient)

HospitalCityMedicare staysBilledPaid
Sentara Martha Jefferson HospitalCharlottesville36$23,099$8,125
Riverside Walter Reed HospitalGloucester11$25,556$8,637
Uva Health Haymarket Medical CenterHaymarket19$27,326$8,979
Chesapeake General HospitalChesapeake70$23,811$9,057
Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical CenterWilliamsburg28$41,514$9,111
Cjw Medical CenterRichmond96$107,656$9,278
Mary Immaculate HospitalNewport News22$35,073$9,493
John Randolph Medical CenterHopewell20$66,652$9,587
Bon Secours Southside Medical CenterPetersburg47$110,249$9,624
Stafford Hospital, LLCStafford15$16,140$9,699
Sentara Virginia Beach General HospitalVirginia Beach40$55,829$9,784
Henrico Doctors' HospitalRichmond60$73,161$9,810
Sentara Obici HospitalSuffolk30$47,129$9,848
Bon Secours St Marys HospitalRichmond53$38,327$9,883
Sentara Princess Anne HospitalVirginia Beach38$46,735$10,068
Mary Washington HospitalFredericksburg89$21,031$10,070
Sentara Leigh HospitalNorfolk54$38,257$10,093
Reston Hospital CenterReston33$58,331$10,110
Spotsylvania Regional Medical CenterFredericksburg22$49,811$10,146
Inova Fair Oaks HospitalFairfax44$28,872$10,275
Sentara Careplex HospitalHampton18$32,251$10,289
Virginia Hospital CenterArlington43$30,658$10,414
Bon Secours St Francis Medical CenterMidlothian34$46,828$10,543
Inova Alexandria HospitalAlexandria65$36,926$10,635
Riverside Regional Medical CenterNewport News42$29,433$10,654
Centra Bedford Memorial HospitalBedford14$24,790$10,668
Sovah Health DanvilleDanville44$48,818$10,768
Centra Health - Lynchburg Gen HospitalLynchburg85$47,704$10,797
Uva Health Prince William Medical CenterManassas12$42,071$10,881
Sentara Northern Virginia Medical CenterWoodbridge51$36,659$10,892
Lewisgale Hospital AlleghanyLow Moor15$41,999$10,976
Bon Secours Maryview Medical CenterPortsmouth33$28,989$11,003
Inova Loudoun HospitalLeesburg61$32,197$11,022
Uva Health Culpeper Medical CenterCulpeper19$35,416$11,223
Augusta HealthFishersville22$25,170$11,249
Carilion Tazewell Community HospitalTazewell11$37,849$11,310
Winchester Medical CenterWinchester42$24,974$11,388
Carilion New River Valley Medical CenterChristiansburg25$42,801$11,461
Johnston Memorial HospitalAbingdon30$39,650$11,571
Carilion Medical CenterRoanoke75$44,556$11,728
Inova Mount Vernon HospitalAlexandria28$37,102$11,798
Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical CenterMechanicsville53$53,991$11,907
Lewisgale Medical CenterSalem44$70,098$11,913
Community Memorial HospitalSouth Hill15$50,454$12,203
Sentara Rmh Medical CenterHarrisonburg27$29,116$12,325
Lewisgale Hospital MontgomeryBlacksburg24$39,976$12,393
Lewisgale Hospital PulaskiPulaski12$54,695$12,863
Sentara Norfolk General HospitalNorfolk33$49,870$13,274
Inova Fairfax HospitalFalls Church123$35,180$13,980
Lonesome Pine HospitalBig Stone Gap11$38,860$15,396
University of Virginia Medical CenterCharlottesville37$80,839$23,281
Medical College of Virginia HospitalsRichmond66$95,898$26,444

Medicare: CMS, 2024 (hospitals with 11 or more Medicare stays). Cash and insurer prices: hospitals' own price files, where read; insurer figures are commercial plans only, median and 10th–90th percentile across plans.